Returning arrays from methods

Question

Hello,
I'm trying to write a program that is structured like this;
- The first method gets the user to enter 20 integers, which are stored in an array.
- This method is then supposed to return this array.
- The main method calls the first method (the one with the array).
- The main method then calls another method which finds the highest value in the array passed to it (from the initial method) and then prints this value.
I've tried for about 2 hours now though, and can't get it to return the array.
Bear in mind I'm a novice at Java. I'll put my code below. Any help on this would be really appreciated because I'm totally stumped.
public class part1
     static int counter=20;
     public static void enterMarks()
               int classMarks[] = new int[20];
               for (int i=0; i<20; i++)
                         classMarks[i] = getScannerInput.anInt("Please enter an integer value between 0 and 20 for each mark :");
                         System.out.println();
                         System.out.print("The marks entered were ");
                         for (int j=0; j<counter; j++)
                                   System.out.print(classMarks[j]+", ");
     public static void max()
//               int[] classMarks2=classMarks;
     public static void main(String args[])
               int[] marks=enterMarks();
}Can someone tell me how I need to alter this so that the first method will return the array? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Thanks for all the help so far everyone, I'm finally getting somewhere, but I've another problem. Here's my current code:
     static int counter=20;
     public static int[] enterMarks()
               int classMarks[]= new int[counter];
               for (int i=0; i<counter; i++)
                         classMarks[i] = getScannerInput.anInt("Please enter an integer value between 0 and 20 for each mark :");
                         System.out.println();
                         System.out.print("The marks entered were ");
                         for (int j=0; j<counter; j++)
                                   System.out.print(classMarks[j]+", ");
                              return classMarks;     
     public static int max(int arr[])
               int[] marks = classMarks;
               int tempStore=0;
               for (int k=0;k<counter;k++)
                    if(marks[k]>marks[k+1])
                    tempStore=marks[k];
               return tempStore;
     public static void main(String args[])
               int[] marks = enterMarks();
}When I try to compile that, I'm told that the variable classMarks may not have been initialised. Surely it should be getting classMarks from the first method now that the first method is set up to return the array?